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hebrew support for Rhythmbox 0.10.0

Asked by Guy

I have music that I would like to be able to play on my fresh install of ubuntu (v 7.04) with the included rhythmbox.
The music is in Hebrew and so is the songs titles , in the rhythmbox the song titles and the artist are in gibrish.
My Linux box works fine with Hebrew in Firefox and other applications.

Thanks Guy

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#1

This is an issue with the encoding of the text in the songs. Rhythmbox supports UTF-8 (Unicode) though the songs could have any sort of 8-bit encoding. An 8-bit encoding is generally indistinguishable from any other 8-bit encoding.

Some media players have the option, if a title is not valid UTF-8, to use an 8-bit encoding that you specify in the options. Rhythmbox does not have this option as far as I know, so you may have to choose something else here.

The long term plan would be to convert the encoding of the text in the songs to UTF-8. You can use EasyTag for this job, and Rhythmbox will be very happy.

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Guy (guy-schrift) said : 		#2

Is there any other application like rhythmbox that does support 8-bit encoding
Guy

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#3

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_media_players for a full list of media players, including for Ubuntu.

I do not have this requirement for legacy encodings, so I am not sure which one has the feature.
I would risk a guess that Beep Media Player (from the above list) supports legacy encodings. The package name is "beep-media-player".
Please report back if it works for you.

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Guy (guy-schrift) said : 		#4

I've tried BMP and it does not support legacy encoding. I will try finding another utility that can handle this issue.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#5

Thanks.

Please report back when you find such a media player. These questions and answers are searchable by Google, so it will help other users as well.

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